CSEC HISTORY RESOURCE GUIDE
CSEC HISTORYRESOURCE GUIDEKey primary and secondary resources for the study of CXC CaribbeanHistory
CSEC History Resource GuideThis guide contains a select list of key primary and secondary resources (books,photographs, manuscripts, maps, newspapers) from the CSEC History Syllabusthat are available at the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ). Also contained areadditional resources, not listed in the syllabus, based on the 9 themes outlined inthe syllabus.Some materials are available online but for some are only available in print formatat the library. See more on using the libraryHow to use this guideThe guide is formatted similar to the CXC syllabus, with the author on the right,and title and publication information on the left and includes the library’scall/classification #. For example,Greenwood, R.AuthorA Sketch map History of the Caribbean. Oxford: MacmillanEducation, 1991.972.9 WI GreTitle & Publicationcall/classification #It is divided in three sections: Section 1: sources for general background reading Section 2: sources on the core section of the syllabus Sections 3: divided into the nine themes covered by the syllabus2
For each section, the primary sources are separated from the secondary sources With you topic in mind, go to the theme relevant to your topic. Look at the list of resources, read the notes, look at the date and type ofsource Click on link if online full text is available OR After identifying a resource that you want, make note of the title authorand library call number. Complete a request slip at the library, give slip to library attendant.GENERAL BACKGROUND READINGAshdown, P.Caribbean History in Maps. Kingston: Longman1979. Pam 911.729 Ja AshBeckles, H. andShepherd, V.Liberties Lost: Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems.Cambridge, UK: The Press Syndicate, University of Cambridge, 2004.972.9 Ja BecBeckles, H. andShepherd, V.Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities anNationhood.Cambridge, UK: The Press Syndicate, University of Cambridge, 2004.972.9 Ja BecClaypole, W.Caribbean Story. (Books 1 and 2).Essex, England: Pearson Education,2001.972.9 WI ClaGordon, S.Caribbean Generations: a CXC History Source Book. Kingston: LongmanCaribbean, 1983.972.9 Ja GorGreenwood, R.A Sketchmap History of the Caribbean. Oxford: Macmillan Education,1991.972.9 WI GreHall, D.The Caribbean Experience: an Historical Survey 1450-1960. London:Heinemann Educational Books, 1982.Caribbean,972.9 Hal3
Higman, B. (ed.)Trade, Government and Society in Caribbean History 1700-1920: EssaysPresented to Douglas Hall. Kingston: Heinemann, 1983.972.9 Ja TraKnight, F.W.The Modern Caribbean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,1989.972.9 MorLewis, G.K.Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: the Historical Evolution ofCaribbean Society in its Ideological Aspects, 1492-1900. Kingston:Heinemann Educational, 1983.972.9001 LewReid, B.A.Myths and Realities of Caribbean History. Tuscaloosa: University ofAlabama Press, 2009.972.9 ReiRogozinski, J.A.A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to thePresent. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1999.972.9 RogShepherd, V.A.Women in Caribbean History: the British Colonised Territories. Kingston:Ian Randle, 1999.305.409729 Ja WomSources of West Indian history / compiled by F. R, Augier and Shirley C. Gordon London,Longmans, 1962. 972.9 AugWatts, D.The CoreThe West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and EnvironmentalChange since 1492. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.330.9729 WatBeckles, H. andShepherd, V.Liberties Lost: Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems.Cambridge, UK: The Press Syndicate, University of Cambridge, 2004.972.9 Ja BecBeckles, H. andShepherd, V.Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood.Cambridge, UK: The Press Syndicate, University of Cambridge, 2004.972.9 Ja Bec4
Craton, M.Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies.Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.326 CraDookham, I.A pre-emancipation history of the West Indies. London: Collins, 1971.972.9 DooDookham, I.The United States in the Caribbean. London: Collins Caribbean, 1985.327.730729 DooGreen, W.A.British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the GreatExperiment 1830-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.326.09729 WI GreHulme, P.Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean 1492-1797.London: Methuen, 1986.972.902 HulLewis, W.A.Labour in the West Indies: the Birth of a Workers’ Movement. London:New Beacon Books, 1977.331 LewPares, R.The United States in the Caribbean. London: Frank Cass, 1963.972.903 ParReid, B.A.Myths and Realities of Caribbean History. Tuscaloosa: University ofAlabama Press, 2009.972.9 ReiContinue to the Themes on the next page5
Theme 1: The Indigenous People and the EuropeansThis theme covers indigenous peoples of the Caribbean up to 1492; the Tainos/Arawaks,Kalinagos/Caribs, Mayas; also deals with Columbus’s voyages, and the encounter betweenEuropeans and indigenous peoplesAnthony, M.The Golden Quest: The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus. London:Macmillan, 1992.972.902 WI AntCoe, M.D.The Maya. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1966.972.015 CoeHulme, P.Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean 1492-1797.London: Methuen, 1986.972.902 HulRouse, I.The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People who Greeted Columbus. NewHaven: Yale University Press, 1992.972.902 RouOther Resources at National Library not listed in the SyllabusBeckles, H.European settlement and rivalry 1492-1792: from Columbus toToussaint. Kingston: Heinemann, 1983.Pam 972.9 Ja BecBeckles, H.Kalinago (Carib) resistance to European colonization of the Caribbean.Caribbean Quarterly. 52:4 (December 2008): 77-94.C358Bercht, F. (ed.)Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean. New York:Monacelli Press, 1997.972.9004979 WI TaiFrantz, W.Introduction to the Maya: a guidebook and history of the Mayacivilization. Merida: El Paso Publications, 1964.Pam 972.015 WI FraWinzerling, E.O.Aspects of the Maya Culture. New York: North River Press, 1956.972.015 Win6
Primary SourcesColumbus, C.Accounts of Christopher Columbus and the towns first built by theSpaniards in the island of Jamaica.MS 296 No. 1Columbus, C.The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus, together with his voyagesof his companions. London: John Murray, 1849973.15 ColSyncox, G.and Sullivan, B.Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies: a Brief Historywith Documents. Boston: Bedford, 2005.970.015092 SymHistory of Columbus’s early life and his 4 voyages and encounters with theindigenous peoples and their way of life.Contains mainly extracts from primary source documents; also has notesmade by the authors.Williams, E.Documents of West Indian History Vol. I, 1491-1655. Port-of-Spain: PNMPublishing, 1963.972.9 WilPrimary source documents on the discovery of the West Indies, theSpanish on the islands, indigenous and white labour and organization ofSpanish and non-Spanish colonies.Theme 2: Caribbean Economy and SlaveryThis theme covers the Economic Revolutions (sugar & mahogany etc.) and impact, The TransAtlantic slave trade, Sugar Production and Marketing, the Emergence of a Plantation Societyand African cultural forms.Curtin, p.The Slave Trade: a Census. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.326.1 Cur7
Dunn, R.S.Sugar and Slaves: the Rise of Planter Class in the English West Indies1624-1713. Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 1972.972.903 DunGoveia, E.Slave Society in the British Leeward Island at the End of EighteenthCentury. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.326.972971 GovGoveia, E.The West Indian Slave Laws of the Eighteenth Century. London:Caribbean University Press, 1970.326.972971 GovHamilton-Willie, D.The Caribbean Economy and Slavery. Kingston, Jamaica. JamaicaPublishing House Limited, 2001.Pam 972.90076 Ja HamPatterson, O.The Sociology of Slavery; an Analysis of the Origin, Development andStructure of Negro Slavery in Jamaica. London: Macgibbon and Kee,1967.326.97292 Ja PatSheridan, R.Sugar and Slavery: an Economic History of the British West Indies 16231775. Barbados: Caribbean University Press, 1974.972.903 SheOther Resources Available at NLJ not listed in the SyllabusBeckles, H.Slave Voyage: the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans. Paris:UNESCO, 2002.306.362 Bec(Origin of slavery, West Africa before slavery, slave trade, impact onAfrica, impact on Europe and Americas, abolition).Brathwaite, E.Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica. London: New Beacon Books, 1970.Pam 917.292 Ja BraCulture of slaves: customs - birth, death, marriage, religious practices,music, dance, dressCraton, M. andG. GreenlandSearching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.301.4493097292 Ja Cra8
Image and information on the layout of plantations; slave population,mortality, diseasesHigman, B.Jamaica Surveyed: Plantations, maps and plans of the 18th and 19thCenturies. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica Publications Ltd., c1988.333.3 Ja HigMaps and images of sugar estates, coffee, pimento and cottonplantationsShepherd, V.Women in Caribbean History: the British-Colonised Territories. Kingston:Ian Randle Publishers, 1999.Indigenous women, women in slavery, women after emancipation,immigrant women305.409729 Ja WomPrimary SourcesAbrahams, R.and Szwed, J.Brummell, J.After Africa: extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the17th, 18thand 19th centuries Concerning Slaves, their Manners, andCustoms in the British West Indies. New Haven, London: Yale UniversityPress, c1983.Contents: slave culture and cultural forms, jonkunnu, religious practices,Demerara after fifteen years of freedom. London, T. Bosworth, 1853.Told from the perspective of a landowner (John Brummell), this includesinformation on the description of a sugar estate, the cane field, boilinghouse and the different levels of leadership.988.1 DemEquiano, Olaudah.The interesting narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or GustavusVassa, the African. Leeds: James Nichols, 1814326.92 Equ/B Ja EquThe autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, an ex-slave living in England. Thisautobiography contains valuable information about slavery and the transAtlantic slave trade.9
Hall, D.In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86.Kingston: The University of the West Indies, 1999.B Ja ThiThis is a commentary and exploration on the diary of ThomasThistlewood, estate overseer and small landowner in Western Jamaica,1750-1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his activities, whichreflect plantation life- its people, social life, agricultural techniques,medicinal remedies and relations between slaves and owners.Page from a journal noting daily work done by Negro slaves on aplantation dated March 28th, 1818MS 1940Bill for slaves bought of Bold and Higgin by John Packharnis, St. Ann’sBay, Jamaica, September 2, 1793.MS 593This is a receipt and bill showing the purchase of 15 slaves 8 females and5 males (2 boys) by John Packharnis in 1793. It also includes the cost ofeach slave and their names.Jamaica Pamphlets. Contain documents that presents arguments for and against the abolitionof slavery. Some of these documents were written by members of theclergy and plantocracy. See below bibliographic notes for some of thesedocuments.A letter to the members of the imperial parliament referring to theevidence contained in the proceedings of the House of Assembly ofJamaica and showing the injurious and unconstitutional tendency of theproposed Slave Registry Bill. London: J. M. Richardson, 1816.972.92 Ja Jam V.26AThis letter was written by a Jamaican planter and member of the House ofAssembly to prevent the implementation of the slave registration bill of1816 passed by the British government.Slave Law of Jamaica with proceedings and documents relative thereto.London: James Ridgway, 1828. 972.92 Ja JamThis document is very detailed in its clarification of the New Slave Lawspassed by the Jamaican Assembly to improve the conditions of slaves.10
Negro Slavery or a view of some of the more prominent features of thatstate of society as it exists in the United States of America and in thecolonies of the West Indies especially in Jamaica. London: RichardTaylor, 1823. 972.92 Ja JamThis essay contains useful information on the amelioration laws and thelives of enslaved in the period before emancipation in the British WestIndies. Found in Pamphlets Jamaica Politics vol.XVII.The debate on a motion for the Abolition of the Slave- Trade in theHouse of Commons on Monday and Tuesday April 18 and 19, 1791.Reported in detail. London: W. Woodfall,An observer’s examination of Debate on the motion for the Abolition ofthe Slave trade in the lower house of the British parliament (House ofCommons). It includes arguments put forward by Wilberforce andmembers of the West India Interest.972.92 Ja JamBeckford, WilliamA descriptive account of the island of Jamaica with remarks upon thecultivation of the Sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of theyear, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; alsoobservations and reflections upon what would probably be theconsequences of an abolition of the slave trade and of theemancipation of the slaves. Vol.1 and Vol. 2. London: T. and J. Egerton,1790. 917.292 Ja Bec.Written by a Jamaican plantation owner William Beckford. It includes adescription on plantation life and his views about the anti-slaverymovement. Two Volumes.Theme 3: Resistance and RevoltThis theme deals with forms of slave control, forms of resistance, Maroon societies, HaitianRevolution, Berbice (1763), Barbados (1816), Demerara (1823), Jamaica(1831) revoltsBryan, P.The Haitian Revolution and its Effects. Kingston: Heinemann, 1984.Pam 972.9403 Ja BryCraton, M.Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies.Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.326 Cra11
Fick, C.The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below.Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.972.9403 WI FicMathurin, L.The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies during Slavery. Kingston:African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica, 1975.Pam 326.9729 Ja MaiMcKenzie, C.Vacianna, J.and Campbell, C.The Jamaica Historical Review, Special Issue on Haiti in the EarlyNineteenth Century, Vol XXIII, 2007.J846Thompson, A.Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas.Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006.972.92 Ja ThoOther Resources at NLJ not listed in the SyllabusBeckles, H.Blacks Rebellion in Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery 1627-1838.Barbados: Antilles Publication, 1984.305.5670972981 Bec(Bussa Rebellion 1816)Bryan, P.The Hatian Revolution and after. Kingston: Department of History, UWI,1982.History of Haiti and Hatian Revolution972.9404 Ja BrySlave Revolts in the Caribbean Islands. Presence Africaine. 84 (1972):117-130.Berbice rebellion, Maroons, Haitian revolutionP742Clarke, J. H.Hart, R.Blacks in Bondage: Slaves Who Abolished Slavery. Vol. I & II. Kingston:Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI, 1980/85.305.567 Ja HarOutlines resistance by, The Maroons, Sam Sharpe and the ChristmasRebellion, Tacky’s Rebellion and the Haitian Revolution (vol. 1)Reynolds, C. RoyTacky and the Great Slave Rebellion of 1760. Jamaica Journal 6.2 (1972):5-8.J53812
Primary SourcesFolkes, Theodore.Eighteen months in Jamaica: with recollections of the late rebellion.London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnott, 1838.This journal provides useful information about the Christmas Rebellion inJamaica 1831-1832 from the point of view of Theodore Folkes a visitor toJamaica from 1831 to 1832.917.292 Ja FouheProceedings of the House of Assembly October 31, 1734.This letter written M. Bladen (?) to Sir Walpole (?) regarding the threat ofthe Maroons, and the militia’s inability to defeat the maroons.MS 1020 (multiple pages)Substance of the debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday the 1stand Friday the 11th of June, 1824 on the motion of Henry Brougham esq.respecting the trial and condemnation to death by a court martial of theRev. John Smith, late missionary in the colony of Demerara. London:London Missionary Society, 1824. (Digital Copy)346.5 SubThis publication contains useful information concerning the events andthe aftermath of the Demerara revolt of 1823. The preface describes theevents leading up to this slave revolt and the consequences.Facts and documents connected with the late insurrection in Jamaicaand the violations of civil and religious liberty arising out of it. London:Holdsworth and Ball, 1832. (Digital Copy)972.92 Ja FacThis work contains correspondences and eyewitness’s accounts about theslave rebellion in Jamaica that took place in Jamaica from 1831 to 1832and the subsequent attacks on the Baptist churches and missionaries.Remarks on the insurrection in Barbados and the bill for the registrationof slaves. London: Ellerton and Henderson, 1816.972.98 RemCommentary on the causes and events of the Barbados Revolt of 1816Letter from Lord Balcarres, to His Grace, the duke of Portland, injustification of the Maroon War/ Private letter of A. L. Balcarres, Lt. Gov. ofJamaica to H. Dundas re Maroon War & report of Col. Walpole13
Letters written by Lord Balcarres, who was governor of Jamaica duringthe second Maroon War., These letters provide useful information aboutthe causes of the 2nd Maroon War, 179?MS 613 & MS 613aShepherd, V.Rebel voices: testimonies from the 1831-1832 emancipation wars inJamaica. Jamaica Journal 27.2-3 (2004): 54-63. J538Theme 4: Metropolitan Movement towards EmancipationResponses to revolts, attitudes towards slavery, anti-slavery movements, amelioration, BritishEmancipation Act, apprenticeship, Emancipation ActGreen, W.A.British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the GreatExperiment 1830-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.326.09729 WI GreHamilton-Willie, D.Movement towards Emancipation. Kingston: Jamaica Publishing HouseLtd., 2001.Pam 972.90076 Ja HamHayward, J. (ed.)Out of Slavery: Abolition and After. London: Frank Cass, 1985.322.44094 OutWilliams, E.Capitalism and Slavery. London: Deutsch, 1972.330.9729 WilOther Resources at NLJ not listed in the SyllabusUWIExtra Mural StudiesApprenticeship and Emancipation. Mona: Department of Extra – MuralStudies UWI, 1971.Pam 326. 8 Ja AppMcDonald, R. A. (ed.) Between slavery and freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson’sJournal of St. Vincent during the apprenticeship. Kingston: University ofthe West Indies Press, 2001.972. 9844 Ja BetContains the complete text from the journal of Special Magistrate JohnAnderson14
Burn, W.L.Emancipation and apprenticeship in the British West Indies. New York:Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970.326. 8 BurCousins, W.M.The emancipation of the slaves in Jamaica and its results. London:University of London, 1928.This typescript document is a thesis offered to the University of London.MS 168Primary SourcesAn act for the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies; forpromoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for thecompensating the persons hitherto entitled to the services of suchslaves. London, 1833.326. 8 Gt. BCopy of Emancipation Act of 1833, in its entirety as published by theBritish Government in 1833.Clarkson, ThomasThoughts on the necessity of improving the condition of the slavesBritish colonies with a view to their ultimate emancipation; and on thepracticality, the safety and advantages of the latter measure. 3rd ed.London: The Society for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slaverythroughout the British dominions, 1823.Pam 326. 4 ClaThis is a publication made by well-known British abolitionist ThomasClarkson, advocating for Amelioration of the condition of slavery and itseventual abolition.Dreadful accounts of a Negro, who for killing the overseer of aplantation in Jamaica, was placed in an iron cage and left
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